Unpublished In Tel-Aviv

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“The first draft of everything is shit”…

There comes a time in any book’s gestation when everything that will come together has already come together, where the hours have been put in and, as an unpublished author, you can sense the invisible finish-line in your bones. Thanks to…

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Alternate communication…

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Knocking shit down…

Over here, a lot of walls get put up; not a lot get pulled down. In the country, that is. In our apartment, it’s the opposite. Just this morning, this disaster zone was my study. Now it’s a hole, and…

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Camel, meet straw…

Look long, look hard people: this is what rejection looks like. £6.87 in pre-paid postage, and they photocopy the same letter so cheaply even the signature is smudged. To top it off, I’m reduced to the generic Writer. Dear Writer , but last time I checked…

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Danger! Unpublished Author on the loose…

A lot of people have asked me what the life of an unpublished author looks like. (Actually, nobody’s asked me, ever, but it’s a Saturday – the sabbath – and Tel-Aviv’s luxuriating in its weekly lull so I thought I’d…

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